Harmonica-holder.



PATENTED MAR. 1, 190.4.

0. T. KNODE. HARMONICA HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1903.

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Patented March 1, 1904:.

PATENT OFFICE.

I OLIVER T. KNODE, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

HARMONICA-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,713, dated March 1, 1904. Application filed September 21, 1903. Serial No. 174,089. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER T. KNoDE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Harmonica-Holders; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and toletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified form of the invention.

This invention has relation to harmonicaholders, having for its object the improvement of the device patented September 17, 1889, and numbered 411, 37 1, with a view to simplify and cheapen the construction thereof and increase its durability.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts,all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a piece of wire of strong and rigid character bent into elongated form and serving as the attachment-frame of parts of the device and acting as a breast-bar A to rest upon the breast of the person. Secured to the lateral arms (Z of this breast-bar are the inner ends 6 of the wire shoulder-hooks B, coiled around such branches and arched upwardly in such wise as to overhang the shoulder and being arranged to turn inwardly upon said branches into substantially the same plane as the other parts of the device for compactness in shipment, &c.

The inwardly-turned end portions of the breast-bar A are extended upwardly to form spring-arms C, having diverging upper portions 0, terminating in inwardly-turned points 0 forming the gripping-jaws for the harmonica.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings is shown a modification of the invention in which a wire A is first bent into quadrangular form for a breast-bar. A second wire, C is then centrally coiled around the lower arm of the breast-bar and the end portions thereof bent upwardly to form the spring-arms O having inturned pointed extremities. Shoulder-hooks B have'coiled ends engaging the lateral arms of the breast-bar A Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A harmonica-holder consisting of the wire breast-bar having lateral arms and provided with upwardly-extending spring-arms adapted to grip the harmonica, and the shoulder-hooks having coiled ends engaging the lateral arms of said breast-bar, substantially as specified.

2. A harmonica-holder consisting of the wire breast-bar having lateral arms and provided with upwardly-extending spring-arms having inturned pointed extremities, and the shoulder-hooks having end coils engaging the lateral arms of said breast-bar, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLIVER T. KNODE.

Witnesses:

RAY K. SHIVELEY, J. W. NEWMAN. 

